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08/31/2012

Stowe has runners, too!

An unintenional oversight, but Stowe was not included in my cross country preview that ran earlier this week.

Here's what should have been in there about the Raiders:

Stowe returns many of its top boys talent that led the Raiders to a narrow fifth-place finish at the Division III state meet last fall (they were one point out of a tie for 4th and two points out of a tie for 2nd). They return their top finisher from the state meet in junior Sam Puddicome, who finished in 4th in 19:20.5. Two of the rest of the top five also return: senior Kyle Duffy and sophomore JJ Clark.

On the girls side, although the Raiders did not place as a team in the state meet in 2011, youth is on their side. Now-junior Josie Gelfin was 30th in 26:01 out of 71 runners.